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Northern Links Golf Course is a 9-hole public course in Mapleton Township, Iowa.

It plays 3,260 yards from the Blue tees, slope 115 (checked 2026-08-15).

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9
holes
36
par
3,260
yards (tips)
115
slope (blue)
The shape of the round · Blue teespublished figures only
HOLE ORDER — BLUE TEES533196367372183356524331463152334445364758494PAROUT 1,468 YDSIN 1,857 YDSFIRST NINESECOND NINE
The published card in playing order, 9 holes with the two nines split — hole number under each bar, its par below that.

The course

access
public
address
7701 North Cliff Avenue, Mapleton Township, IA, 57104
phone
605-334-6679
elevation
1,087 ft derived
opened
1998

42.41694, -93.11583 — open on OpenStreetMap →

From above

Aerial imagery of the area around Northern Links Golf Course. None of its holes has been traced yet, so nothing is drawn over it, and the frame follows the course's location rather than a surveyed property line.

Aerial imagery of the area around Northern Links Golf Course, NAIP 2023. None of its holes has been traced yet, so nothing is drawn over it.

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Aerial imagery of the area around Northern Links Golf Course, NAIP 2023. None of its holes has been traced yet, so nothing is drawn over it. The map itself needs JavaScript.

Aerial imagery only, nothing traced over it yet · USDA NAIP 2023-10-10

Tees & ratings

Ratingsopen datachecked 2026-08-15

All 3 tee sets par, yardage, slope — the full table

Sorted by Yards, descending. 3 rows.

BlueM363260contested3325115
WhiteM362953contested2990106
RedM362400contested2443107

Every figure as published except Card yards (derived), which is summed from the card below and shown only where a published figure is contested; a blank cell elsewhere is one nobody publishes.

The Blue, White and Red tees publish a yardage total the scorecard below does not add up to. Both figures are published and nothing we hold settles which one a round plays to, so the Yards column keeps the published figure, marked contested, and each tee's own yardage row from the card below is summed beside it, marked derived.

Scorecard — every published tee

Scorecardopen datachecked 2026-08-15

Hole 123456789 Total
Par 534434544 36
Blue 533196367372183356524331463 3,260
White 511163347338156327494306348 2,953
Red 44396233280100275422297297 2,400
Handicap 3197171551311

The Studio

The Studio can't plan Northern Links Golf Course hole by hole yet.

We hold its scorecard, but nobody has traced its holes: the bunkers, water and fairway edges a plan aims around.

It plans 4,579 courses hole by hole today, and it charts your bag anywhere.

  • The approach, planned A Studio approach map on the aerial photo: a lob wedge aimed at the island green, its spread drawn as a dashed ring over the water, and the side it most often misses. Example from another course: hole 15, Resort tee, Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale
  • The green, from LiDAR A Studio green view on the aerial photo: arrows for the slope a LiDAR survey measured, the area a cup could be cut, and the safer side to miss. Example from another course: hole 15, Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale
  • Every shot, tee to green A Studio plan on the aerial photo of a desert par 4: the driver off the tee and a 7-iron into the green between the bunkers, each shot with its landing spread drawn as a dashed ring. Example from another course: hole 2, Resort tee, Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale

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Pictures: Studio output for a sample golfer, drawn 2026-10-15. The Studio needs a free account. AI can make mistakes.

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Book a tee time

Rates change by day and by season, so we send you to Northern Links Golf Course's own booking page rather than quoting a figure that was true the week we captured it.

Check tee times and rates

Also bookable nearby: Pine Lake Golf Course (3.8 mi) · Meadow Hills Golf Course (8.7 mi) · Meadowbrook Golf Course (9.3 mi) · Ackley Country Club (9.6 mi)

Measured against comparable courses

How hard and how long this course plays against comparable courses — never how good it is.

FigureThis courseIn IowaNationwideAmong its peers
Longest3,260 yds144th of 3029,761st of 12,0253,080th of 4,105 public courses · 5,406th of 7,004 courses you can book · 368th of 1,791 9-hole regulation courses
Toughest testslope 115=124th of 201=7,374th of 8,710=2,199th of 2,882 public courses · =3,959th of 4,936 courses you can book · =530th of 972 9-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread860 yds between tees115th of 286=8,851st of 11,523=2,704th of 3,841 public courses · =4,849th of 6,653 courses you can book · 230th of 1,640 9-hole regulation courses
Oldestopened 1998=209th of 229=7,592nd of 9,368=2,562nd of 3,277 public courses · =4,386th of 5,526 courses you can book · =1,195th of 1,347 9-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level1,087 ft derived =129th of 319=2,969th of 12,43712th of 12 in the Sioux Falls, SD-MN metro area · 1,079th of 4,289 public courses · =1,910th of 7,274 courses you can book · =619th of 1,830 9-hole regulation courses

A published figure is compared only against the courses that publish it too, which is why the totals differ from row to row — a state's length field is the courses with a scorecard, not the courses in the state. Height above sea level is the exception: we derive it from a coordinate, so its field is very nearly every course we render. Ties share an ordinal and are marked =. How this is computed →

What's on this page

In progress1 of 6 built

1 of 6 parts of this course page are built, and we're filling in the rest.

  • Scorecard, built.Par and yardage for every hole, from 3 sets of tees.
  • Course rating and slope, not built yet.We don't have a course rating or slope for this course yet.
  • Course map, not built yet.We don't have a map of this course yet.
  • Per-hole distances, not built yet.The holes aren't traced yet, so there are no measured carries or distances to the green.
  • Green contours, not built yet.We haven't built the green contours for this course yet.
  • Course details, partly built.5 of 7 background details — we don't hold the architect and the grass on the greens.

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Sources

Gathered from the course's own site and public records — every figure on this page is traceable to who published it and when. Spot an error or a gap? Tell us.

Location and identity seeded from OpenStreetMap — © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Last checked 2026-08-15. Where each figure came from is stated beside it, above.

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Pine Lake Golf Course

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Meadow Hills Golf Course

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Meadowbrook Golf Course

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Ackley Country Club

9.6 mi · Ackley · semi-private · 9 holes

Highland Golf Club

9.9 mi · Iowa Falls · semi-private · 9 holes

Hubbard Golf and Recreation Club

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South Hardin Recreation Area

12 mi · Union · semi-private · 9 holes

Aplington Recreation Complex

16 mi · Aplington · public · 9 holes

Straight-line distance from this course's coordinates, within 60 miles — not driving distance, and it crosses state lines where the nearest courses are over one.

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